Something a little different for my next read:

‘Eight Bears’ by Gloria Dickie

I love bears, and have had the privilege of seeing them in the wild, however, they face a very uncertain future.

I’ve heard great things about this book so looking to learn more.
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W. W. Norton & Company

nytimes.com/2024/05/10/boo…

WTF?

bbc.com/news/articles/…

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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

- Survey of hundreds of IPCC experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn the climate fight must not be abandoned

By me
theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Happy Publication Day Zoë Schlanger! I've never met anyone more passionate about plants and their role in our lives — from searching for Labrador Tea in Fairbanks, Alaska, to roaming breadfruit groves in Hawaii with Zoe on various fellowships. Plants were always front & center 🪴

Holy smokes. Still wrapping my head around this.
pulitzer.org/finalists/john… The Pulitzer Prizes Alfred A. Knopf

Attention freelancers! Newly revised and updated High Country News submission guidelines are live. Same rates for print and web. Help us illuminate the wonders and challenges of living in the West in the 21st century. hcn.org/about/submissi…

So thrilled that our Reuters series on Elon Musk just won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

These journalists were covering a wide range of topics, including protests, mining and land conflicts, logging and deforestation, extreme weather events, pollution and environmental damage, and the fossil fuel industry. reuters.com/business/envir…

More school closures in South Asia as extreme heat continues... reuters.com/world/india/in…

Walrus in Svalbard with avian influenza. This is a concerning situation for many species. Who scavenges a dead walrus in the Arctic? Polar bears, Arctic fox & more birds.
courthousenews.com/bird-flu-claim…

sciencenews.org/article/ximena…

Bangladesh has wavered between opening and closing schools for some 33 million students amid pressure to prepare pupils for exams — even as temperatures climb to dangerous levels. reuters.com/business/envir…

At the latest round of plastic treaty talks, countries agreed to devise a process to identify hazardous plastic chemicals + wasteful products. But they failed to establish a process to review how much virgin plastic is produced, Valerie Volcovici reports. reuters.com/business/envir…

Reuters' latest investigation on Sudan shows spreading cases of starvation and hunger where people eat dirt, tree leaves, and cats.
“We will likely see a famine that we haven’t seen in decades,' Anette Hoffmann

reuters.com/investigates/s…

#KeepEyesOnSudan

A pilot system in Toyama prefecture will monitor live feeds from government, municipal and private security cameras to identify bears on the move in areas close to people, and send instant warnings to relevant local authorities, police and hunters. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

A very long time coming — agencies will seek to move three to seven grizzly bears per year for a period of five to 10 years to establish an initial population of 25 bears in the North Cascades. nps.gov/noca/learn/new…

The frontier myth had painted the California bears as larger than grizzlies elsewhere in the country, but the bone analysis revealed that they were the same size and weight, about 6 feet long and 440 pounds for the average adult. washingtonpost.com/science/2024/0…